Support start-up company formation and commercialization projects between academia and industry;

Expand the definition of eligible recipients that can secure federal funding for commercialization to include organizations that facilitate and accelerate commercialization of technologies that are developed at research institutions;

Support high-skilled immigration reforms that provide industries like health care, energy, life sciences and advanced manufacturing the opportunity to satisfy their demands for high-skilled talent domestically rather than invest and fill those jobs abroad;

Support high-skilled immigration reforms that facilitate the formation and growth of startup companies by immigrant entrepreneurs;

Push for tax reforms that achieve a simplified tax code and promote a competitive business climate;

Enact or preserve tax credits that provide companies an assured and enhanced incentive to invest in innovation domestically;

Pursue federal funding opportunities for the establishment of one more regional “Centers of Excellence” that facilitate the creation of larger-scale, multi-national public-private partnerships between academia and industry;

Promote government rules or regulations that contribute towards competitive growth of American enterprise while protecting capital markets from overregulation.